 He's trying to draw some argument of causation here. And I just don't really see it. We were freer and more prosperous before we started pushing the rainbow flag. Probably our freedom and prosperity peaked somewhere around the middle of the 20th century as the American empire was really on the rise. And even if you don't think that, even if you hate the 1950s for some reason, I think it's hard to argue that we're freer and more prosperous today than we were before 9-11.